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Slay the PE questions were more difficult than the real exam for that particular topic

Well, that sounds like you need to solve more practice problems to complement your understanding of the topics. The MERM Companion should help immensely with that! 

Probably lack of preparedness. But it's alright, you still have plenty of time to revisit the sections you're struggling with. The practice exam is very close in difficulty to the actual exam, except for a couple of heat exchanger problems which were just a bit too much.

Unfortunately the PPI practice exam you've purchased is probably based on the old exam specs, but they've just released a brand new practice exam for the new TFS specs, maybe you can check it out if you have $70 lying around that you don't know what to do with.

I didn't take DTC, but I can tell you that the actual exam was in between the NCEES practice exam and the PPI Practice Problems in terms of difficulty. I admit that some of PPI's Practice Problems were ridiculously long/difficult but I definitely think they helped. Also, I think you have plenty...

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Strategy sounds good. The only thing I'd add is doing a couple more practice exams, maybe PPI or Slay the PE. 

Hi Omer, I don't have any but you might want to try https://www.slaythepe.com/ and http://www.engproguides.com/hvac.html for PDF practice exams and study guides. For the actual exam though, you really need to have the ASHRAE books and any other references in print form. 

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I prefer the MERM. My boss had Mark's lying around and I was thinking of borrowing it for the exam, I flipped through it and was like nah. 

Also, don't worry too much about problems where you have to calculate the entire cooling/ heating load of a building. Focus instead on getting familiar with representing different processes on the psychrometric chart and knowing how to get things like the ADP and bypass factor

I admit that I was scared of that knowledge area in particular because I felt like I didn't get enough practice. But I passed and I think the MERM (13th Ed.) and it's problems book are enough. I found that the questions in the actual exam are almost the same difficulty.

I don't think you're going to do anything crazy at all! You're a 30-year old engineer and you're obviously smart enough to know what you want to do next. It seems like you've given this decision a lot of thought and weighed the opportunities against the risks. I'd say go for it and I wish you...

May I add that the Engineering Pro Guide's creator is a very helpful and respectful person. He reached out to me and offered to refund me for the guide and asked me for my feedback. I think that the next version of the guide and practice exam will be great. 

That's pretty much what I did. The only difference is I spent almost 60% of my time studying the MERM and the other 40% with everything else.

I took the TFS exam in October and I passed. I was never a big fan of solving certain problems or exams gazillion times until you get them 100% correct, so I didn't do that. But solving problems, a lot of problems, is extremely important. Here's my 2 cents: - The NCEES practice exam and Slay...

Because most people just skim through the MERM and try to solve as many problems as possible from other books/ practice exam. I did all the examples in the MERM for the TFS and I thought they were great.

These examples are excellent and they'll help you grasp the topics better. They aren't as difficult as the MERM's companion book's problems but they are good to start with.